Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with award-winning, globe-trotting, history-hunting storyteller, Ken McGoogan! In his latest book, Searing for Franklin: New Light on the Great Arctic Mystery, arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring […]
Join local author Danielle S. Marcotte for the launch of her new picture book, Blue Camas, Blue Camas. Sunday, November 19 | 1:00 pm Black Bond Books – Ladner Village Blue Camas, Blue Camas is the captivating story of how a flower that has been cultivated on Canada’s west coast since time immemorial came to […]
Join Munro’s Books on May 10th to meet Emma Fitzgerald, author of Hand Drawn Victoria: An Illustrated Tour in and Around BC's Capital City!! For locals and visitors alike, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria shine. You never know quite what you’ll come across in British […]
Join Munro’s Books on Victoria Day to meet the authors of four local books: Collin Varner's 50 Keystone Flora Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest and 50 Keystone Fauna Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest; Taryn Eyton's Backpacking on Vancouver Island; and Dave Doroghy and Graeme Menzies' 111 Places […]
Get ready for the Tri-Cities Writers Festival 2025! We’re welcoming more than a dozen celebrated authors to our community for four days of talks, panels, and workshops this May. Sessions will be in-person and online, and include a kick-off cocktail reception, where you can enjoy great food and drink alongside your fellow book lovers, and […]
Tawahum Bige will launch a new poetry collection, Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells, at Enabling Arts on Granville Island on April 26, 7pm. In their second poetry collection, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth. These poems are a stark plunge—an answer to how voice emerges for a young […]
Join Massy Books, Penguin Random House, and Brian Thomas Isaac for the launch of "Bones of a Giant" at 7 pm on Monday, June 2nd! Books will be for sale at the event, including "All the Quiet Places." Venue: The event will be hosted at the Massy Books, at 229 East Georgia Street in Chinatown, […]
Writing a book is a labour of love that often involves working through complex relationships right on the page. Join four Canadian novelists writing at the intersections of romance, comedy and mental health as they discuss creating lovably flawed characters, share the process of writing second chance storylines and offer their tried-and-true writing tips to […]
Join Simon Fraser University English Professor Joanne Leow at Enabling Arts on April 9th (6:30 PM) for the launch of her new book, “Exhumations: Inside the Body of a Petrostate”. About the book: “What unknowable chemical? How slow was this damage, this violence? … How might any of us stay uncontaminated by all that was […]
Please join us for a book signing with Garth Mullins; author of "Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs". This will be in collaboration with the Name the Crisis community art show, which will be running from April 7-26th. Prior to the signing, you can attend Garth's reading and Q&A event at the Victoria […]